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Hard landing in China could trip Australia

LAURA MILLAN  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... down too fast and the Australian economy doesn't find another source of growth to replace mining. He said that lowering interest rates "is a risky strategy" because it is cheaper for households to borrow and to get into debt to buy property. "China has ...

Australia sings hallelujah

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... write-off of asset purchases costing up to A$20,000 - to boost sales. And then, there's the not so small case of lower interest rates. Happy consumers makes for spending consumers makes for happy businesses makes for investing and hiring businesses makes ...

Market lower as Wall Street falls

AAP  |  MONDAY, 25 MAY 2015
... points at 5,6732. On Friday, US stocks finished lower after Federal Reserve Chair Janet Yellen said the plan to raise interest rates this year was on track. Locally on Monday, OZ Minerals and Reef Casino Trust holds its annual general meetings. In Australia ...

Market to open higher after Wall Street record high

AAP  |  FRIDAY, 22 MAY 2015
... rose slightly at the close as Wall Street also edged up, while dealers speculated over the exact timing of a hike in US interest rates. London's benchmark FTSE 100 index added 0.09 per cent to 7,013.47 points. In the euro area, Frankfurt's DAX 30 climbed ...

Forget Australia, head stateside for property yield

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... real estate sector, the next opportunity in that space could be in the United States, as all eyes turn to the timing of interest rate rises. Australia's love affair with property is "certainly greater than Australia's love affair with shares," HLB Mann ...

NAB upgrades advice compensation program

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... third party and specialist in governance Cameron Ralph. "The review led by Cameron Ralph was to ensure no conflicts of interest affected the construction and design of the role, and to ensure that the customer's perspective is central in establishing ...

AMP deflects ASIC attack reports

ALEX BURKE  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
... investigating the proportion of clients being sold AMP products to determine whether AMP planners are meeting their best interest duty. As part of its ongoing Wealth Management Project, established in October 2014, ASIC has been scrutinising the conduct ...

Plan sponsors have fiduciary obligations: SCOTUS

ALEX DUNNIN  |  THURSDAY, 21 MAY 2015
In a case that is expected to send shock waves through the US workplace superannuation market, the US Supreme Court has agreed that 401(k) sponsors have a fiduciary obligation to not just monitor their funds but remove underperforming or excessively ...

Treasury to simplify foreign investment framework

ALEX BURKE  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... business and corporate finance practices. It also proposes exempting proposals that are unlikely to affect the national interest and increase the consistency of exemptions across the different acquisition types and amending legislation to accommodate ...

FSC backs Commission on choice of super funds

DARREN SNYDER  |  WEDNESDAY, 20 MAY 2015
... chief executive, Sally Loane, said super must be decoupled from the industrial relations system to avoid conflicts of interest and to open the superannuation market to competition and choice. "If Australians are forced to save a portion of their salary ...